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Vatican Reverses Anti-Liberation Policies in Mexico

By Ruth Chojnacki and Jennifer Scheper Hughes

Late last month Mexican Bishop Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel announced that after a 14 year church-ordered suspension of the rite, indigenous deacons would again be ordained in the Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas—where the local church serves a largely Maya population. A rare reversal in church policy, resumption of deacon ordinations in Chiapas appears to signal an end to official ecclesiastical suppression of liberation theology and…

The Right Questions Kamala Harris’ Blackness — Yet as Long as She Holds Any Power She’ll Always Be Too Black for Them

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…cusable. Personally, I think people should vote for someone based on their policies—or, if all else fails, I guess one could overthrow the two-party system? I may not have much in common with Kamala in terms of policy, but I do know that, as another mixed-race Black woman, our mere existence offends. I’m okay with that, and I’m fairly certain Kamala might agree too. Identity politics is often lambasted as some sort of “Left tactic” but the truth i…

Focus on the Family Goes to Bat for Bullies

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Wiseman, author of the book Queen Bees and Wannabees, but generic bullying policies simply don’t work. “We can have policies about ideal reality or we can have policies that are about concrete reality and reflect what children are experiencing, and that’s when we become relevant to young people. If we don’t then it doesn’t work,” she said. By focusing on the bully, Wiseman said, it becomes a matter of the victim’s word against the word of the bull…

Arguments That Caste Protections ‘Unjustly Target’ South Asians Don’t Stand Up to Scrutiny

By Pranay Somayajula and Nikhil Mandalaparthy

…randeis’ caste protections are over two years old, and since then, similar policies have been implemented across the country. During that time, we haven’t heard of a single documented instance, at Brandeis or anywhere else, of these policies being enforced in a discriminatory manner against South Asian students or faculty members. Compare that to the countless heartbreaking examples of casteism on American campuses, and it becomes clear just why t…

Trump’s Fear and Loathing Won’t Silence The Nation’s Sole LGBT Muslim Organization

By Omar Sarwar

…dministration has put forward both anti-Muslim and anti-trans rhetoric and policies. Beyond actual policy changes, the impact of the rhetoric seems to be that individuals and hate groups feel emboldened to express and act on their hostility toward Muslims, immigrants, queer people, trans people, and anyone who seems “different.” In the current climate, I feel that I’m facing increased scrutiny and possible hostility, both from official sources and…

Bullies Flourishing with Christian Support

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…t Education Network or GLSEN, which advocate for the gay-specific bullying policies, of using the policies to create diversity training, “evade parental rights” and “circumvent traditional marriage laws.” While it’s true that teaching children to value each other no matter what their sexual orientation or gender identity may lead to more tolerant people — it’s disgusting to see an organization put its morality politics over the lives of children….

Opening the Door to Hell: Jewish Terrorism in Israel

By Shalom Goldman

…gle against Terrorism, argued that Israel’s much-praised counter-terrorism policies were not successful, despite the headline-grabbing nature of some Israeli exploits. Like most Israelis of his generation (Pedahzur was born in 1970) he grew up admiring those exploits, the most famous and daring of which was the Entebbe rescue of 1976, during which Netanyahu’s older brother Jonathan was killed. But, as he told an interviewer in 2009: [A]fter a deca…

Patriotism and Piety—Not For Conservatives Only

By Ira Chernus

…disgusting. Okay. Don’t we on the left actually believe that conservatives policies are repellent? Don’t we hold our responsibility to the natural environment as a sacred trust and get outraged when it is fouled by conservative policies? Decency is as much a value for us as for the right-wingers. So is a deep reverence for human life. If that’s what conservatives mean by spirituality, then we should not hesitate to proclaim the spirituality of our…

Clueless in Gaza

By Shalom Goldman

…ially to those Israelis, Arab and Jew, who dissent from their government’s policies. Twenty percent of Israel’s citizenry is Arab, and the dissenting voices among them are heard in the United States even less frequently than those of their Jewish fellow-citizens. Reading DA every day, one would get no sense that there are other Israeli voices, some of them highly critical of their government’s actions. Here I am not speaking of Israelis who are an…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…instance). While the initial outcry about any public criticism of Israeli policies most often comes from Jewish organizations, (like the Anti-Defamation League, and AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) there is a very wide, though surely not universal, American Christian support for Israeli governmental actions—approval of Israeli policies is particularly strong among conservative evangelicals. Abraham Foxman, the director of the…